| Re: help in buying a sun machine
vasu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm a windows/intel platform administrator but i also have a solaris
>box in my network. the machine is sun ultrasparc 10 with solaris 7 on
>it. It has 512 mb ram. One of the users in the network wants a solaris
>box with better performance for his application, i thought of
>suggesting to upgrade memory from 512mb to 1GB but i really donno how
>to find out about the specs of this existing box. the memory i got to
>know when i rebooted the machine. our company is mainly into asic
>design and tool testing and support. i really need to decide at the
>earliest and proceed with a sales order.
>
>any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
>
>thanks
>vasu.
>
Why do you believe that more memory will help? If the machine is
swapping heavily, it might help a little or a lot.
On the other hand, if the user needs more CPU cycles than he can get,
only a faster CPU will help!
FWIW, the Ultra 10 maxes out at 1GB (4x256). CPU clock rates range from
270MHz to 440MHz. It's a nice machine but hardly state-of-the-art any
more! (To see what you have, shut down to the "ok" prompt and type
"banner"; that will report the CPU clock rate)
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